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JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 89, Issue 10, Pages 1091-1096Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022034510375282
Keywords
parity; dental caries; health disparities; path analysis
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- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA [DE14257]
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While parity (number of children) reportedly is related to tooth loss, the relationship between parity and dental caries has not been extensively investigated. We used path analysis to test a theoretical model that specified that parity influences dental caries levels through dental care, psychosocial factors, and dental health damaging behaviors in 2635 women selected from the NHANES III dataset. We found that while increased parity was not associated with a greater level of total caries (DFS), parity was related to untreated dental caries (DS). The mechanisms by which parity is related to caries, however, remain undefined. Further investigation is warranted to determine if disparities in dental caries among women are due to differences in parity and the likely changes that parallel these reproductive choices.
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